Kevin Feige On THE AVENGERS Aliens, End-Credits Teaser, TDKR Comparisons And More

Teasing future installments, in quite a lengthy interview with Marvel Studios' head honcho, he discusses The Avengers aliens, end-credits teaser, and comparisons to Warner Bros' TDKR!

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By DCMarvelFreshman - 4/16/2012

Continuing promotional rounds for Marvel's The Avengers flick, now one-on-one with Comic Book Resources, Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige discusses the superhero assembly in more detail than ever. Weighing in on comparisons to Warner Bros and DC Entertainment's Batman finale, The Dark Knight Rises, Feige also discusses Loki's army, the anticipated end-credits teaser and the "key" to the studios' success.

"I haven't seen 'Dark Knight Rises.' [Christopher] Nolan's tone is very specific and is pretty awesome, and we're very different. I think that while we have, particularly in 'Avengers,' very serious moments and [it] is as dark and serious as the moments in any of our films, there's a sense of humor that goes along with it that Joss is an expert at and that we believe very strongly that Jon Favreau really helped define in the 'Iron Man' films, that allows, we believe, the audience to get in even deeper into the story," Feige said.

"There's a lot of crazy stuff going on in our movies, and we want people to believe in them and we want people to relate to them. When they're laughing, when they're cheering, you can suddenly hit them with something else -- you open up through humor and that tone, that fine line between the epic, the bombastic, the moving and the humor is to me that favorite part of stringing all these movies together," Feige said. "One of my favorite compliments coming out of many of our films is, 'I didn't think it would be so funny!'"

"Truthfully [the aliens] are Loki's army and what is most important about them is that they are Loki's army. The notion of Skrulls and Kree and the amount of speculation -- the great thing about the fans just want to know everything they don't know. They wanted to fill in the blank, and that blank wasn't particularly important of who the aliens were; we revealed Loki a long time ago, he was the main bad guy."

"There's a reveal at the end -- the notion that Loki has made an arrangement with somebody, that somebody has provided these extremely deadly and creepy and cool aliens to fight alongside him and then to reveal who that somebody was, that's all Joss and that was sort of the big payoff," Feige said.

Regarding future big-screen adaptations, when CBR asked the producer about the potential Antman, Runaways, Inhumans or Guardians films, he smilingly responded, "Two of those four are much closer than people realize, and we'll be talking about them in the coming months!"

For the full interview, where Kevin Feige discusses Joss Whedon's writing tactics, Agent Coulson's inclusion and much much more, head on over to Comic Book Resources!

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"There's a lot of crazy stuff going on in our movies, and we want people to believe in them and we want people to relate to them. When they're laughing, when they're cheering, you can suddenly hit them with something else -- you open up through humor and that tone, that fine line between the epic, the bombastic, the moving and the humor is to me that favorite part of stringing all these movies together,"

And that is how a comic book is brought to life on the big screen. You should experience the same feelings you do when you read the comic book. My sentiments anyway.

I love the USM cartoon and it isn't poor. Its just humor for a different audience apparently.

Can't freaking wait for Ant-Man. Edgar said in an old interview that the character was being written to NOT fit in the MCU so that leads to me to believe some projects being done in Marvel Studios won't be in the shared universe.

So people don't expect all these projects to be in one universe

Interesting TDKR comparison. Glad both Nolan and he has mutual respect for each others projects...which sadly cannot be said for the trolls here

thewonderer@ And that's why Nolan movies don't work that well for me. Outside of Batman, Alfred and Gordon the rest of the films seem to detach from the actual comics. I just don't care for Nolan's style. It doesn't feel like a comic book when I see his Batman films. Different strokes man.

I disagree entirely, Alfred and Gordon being the sole people on Batmans side. Batman talking to Gordon pirvately and then randomly disappearing is so well done. Oldman nails the whole helping Batman but being unsure perfectly. Caine DEFINITELY brings more of a presence than comic Alfred. I just don't think thats a problem and actually an improvement. The chemistry between him and Bale is remarkable on its own and I love how its portrayed his influence and father figure/friend to him.

I guess your right. To be fair though, at least the way I see it, films aren't supposed to look like comics. We have comic books to be comic books. We have films to be films and if we want to adapt it, we have to account for the medium differences.

Feige just recently said that if Ant-Man were already done, they *would* have put him in The Avengers... I'm hoping for Guardians of the Galaxy first and foremost. Ant-Man would be cool... I don't give two craps about The Runaways...

"Marvel are doing what they are doing and people will either respond to that really well or they won't. It's not something I ever applied a blanket rule to, but Marvel characters are very different to DC characters... You've got to go back to that element of 'What do I see when I close my eyes and think of Batman/Superman?' And for me a big part of that is their individuality. They are extraordinary beings in an ordinary world... they are two very different characters but there's an elemental feeling of power in the iconography of those characters. To me that's originally because they stood alone, I need to hang onto that in my imagining of them".

I took it as him acknowledging Joss could pull off a team superhero movie when he just doesn't have the mindset to.

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